In Costa Rica, the government approved a decree that exonerates from the payment of the selective consumption tax to second-hand electric cars that are 5 or less years in service.

To encourage the use of electric vehicles in the country, the Alvarado administration signed the Executive Decree 41426-H-MINAE-MOPT, which grants a fiscal benefit to second-hand electric vehicles whose antiquity is equal to or less than 5 years from the year of its model.

The Alvarado administration has decided to terminate the contract with the company in charge of building the road to San Carlos, a road whose construction was started thirteen years ago yet still remains unfinished.

The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Rodolfo Méndez Mata, said that his plan is to hire three other construction companies and two subcontractors to take charge, separately, of solving the problems that are affecting the work.

The state insurer could be willing to invest up to $500 million in road construction projects that already have their pre-design and studies ready.

The offer by Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) applies only for projects designated as "mature", that is to say, those that already have all the approved permits and pre-designs.The problem with this requirement, according to the executive director of the Federated College of Engineers and Architects (CFIA), is that planning problems faced by Conavi and the Ministry of Public Works make it impossible to meet this requirement."..."Unfortunately, it's not the way the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) and Conavi have been working," Vargas said."

Due to a delay and an exaggerated increase in the cost of the project, consideration is being given to termination of the contract for the construction of the new road to San Carlos and reallocation of the pending works through several separate contracts.

The contract to build the 29.7-kilometer stretch of road between Sifón, San Ramón, and La Abundancia, in San Carlos, was awarded more than 9 years ago to the company Sánchez Carvajal, at an initial cost of $61 million.Since then, the cost of the project has increased 250% to $213 million.

Institutions such as the UNOPS, which supposedly come here to do what the locals can not, should be paid per piece of work for they finish, and not allowed to justify their failures with the same old excuses.

EDITORIALBy Jorge Cobas González

An entrepreneur earns when his business is successful.If it fails to capture a minimum market share and then maintain it, the investment made is lost, and the monthly income established by the performance of its business activities is also lost.Employers charge for their work and earn profits only while the company is successful.The same is true of private-company employees: their wages are tied to company earnings and profits.

Three underground railway lines with a large central exchange station is the basic concept for a project valued at $6 billion.

The Costa Rican College of Engineers and Architects (CFIA) started work on this project in 2014 and has now submitted it to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MOPT), in the form of a pre-feasibility study.

A $53 million road renovation project in Costa Rica, a commercial building and three roadworks in Panama are some of the public infrastructure projects planned for the coming months in the region.

The information system"Construction Projects in Central America",complied by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData, provides an up to date list of the public and private constructionprojects for which environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies were submitted to the respective institutions of each country in January 2017.

In addition to the bureaucracy delaying the project, there is now also an assessment by the shipping company that will provide the service, in order to find a way to "make it profitable."

The project which was announced with great fanfare by the Solis administration one year ago, has not only failed to advance because of the need to modify the regulations on multimodal transport services, but also because now the Odiel shipping company is looking for customers and evaluating the expected profitability of the business, according to government representatives.

The regulations in force for Central America allow two methods of certifying the weight of cargo moving through ports in the region.

The new regulations in force since July 1 oblige entities transportingcontainerized cargo by sea tocertify its weight under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (Solas). The problem cited by exporters is the increase this will have on costs, in addition to infrastructure problems faced in some ports in the region.

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